Identity-Based Encryption

• Main Authors: Chatterjee, Sanjit (Author), Sarkar, Palash (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Data structures (Computer science).; Data encryption (Computer science).; Coding theory.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Algebra.; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Data Encryption.; Software Engineering.; Coding and Information Theory.; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.

Identity Based Encryption (IBE) is a type of public key encryption and has been intensely researched in the past decade. Identity-Based Encryption summarizes the available research for IBE and the main ideas that would enable users to pursue further work in this area. This book will also cover a bri...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Definitions and Notations
• A Brief Background on Elliptic Curves and Pairings
• Boneh-Franklin IBE and its Variants
• Selective-Identity Model
• Security Against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attacks
• IBE in Adaptive-Identity Model Without Random Oracles
• Further IBE Constructions
• IBEWithout Pairing
• Applications, Extensions and Related Primitives
• Avoiding Key Escrow
• Products and Standards
• Bibliography
• Index.